Mars Needs Moms

Name: Mars Needs Moms
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Animation, Family
Released: March 11, 2011
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Dan Fogler, Joan Cusack, Seth Green

2011

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Walt Disney Pictures | Release Date: March 11, 2011 | PG

Starring: Dan Fogler, Joan Cusack, Seth Green

Summary: Take out the trash, eat your broccoli—who needs moms, anyway? Nine-year-old Milo finds out just how much he needs his mom when she's nabbed by Martians who plan to steal her mom-ness for their own young. Produced by the team behind "Disney's A Christmas Carol" and "The Polar Express," "Mars Needs Moms" showcases Milo's quest to save hisTake out the trash, eat your broccoli—who needs moms, anyway? Nine-year-old Milo finds out just how much he needs his mom when she's nabbed by Martians who plan to steal her mom-ness for their own young. Produced by the team behind "Disney's A Christmas Carol" and "The Polar Express," "Mars Needs Moms" showcases Milo's quest to save his mom—a wild adventure in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D that involves stowing away on a spaceship, navigating an elaborate, multi-level planet and taking on the alien nation and their leader. With the help of a tech-savvy, underground earthman named Gribble and a rebel Martian girl called Ki, Milo just might find his way back to his mom—in more ways than one. Based on the book by Berkeley Breathed.(Walt Disney Pictures)
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Director: Simon Wells

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Animation, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 88 min

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Mar 9, 2011

The movie is also visually magnificent - modestly so. Plus, it's half the length of "Avatar." Read full review

Keith Phipps

Mar 10, 2011

Any satirical points about contemporary gender roles get lost in a mad rush through the matriarchy's beautifully realized, Death Star-like gray fortress. It's a fun rush, though, and an intense one, too. Read full review

Movieline Michelle Orange

Mar 7, 2011

I salute the effort to go somewhere strange in Mars Needs Moms; if only a fully realized idea - and not the same, barely concealed right-wing rap, different planet - had been the destination. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Mar 10, 2011

Mars Needs Moms floats about 45 minutes' worth of story in an 88-minute ocean. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Mar 12, 2011

The how-it-was-made demonstration may have been the most captivating part of Mars Needs Moms. Read full review

Mike Hale

Mar 10, 2011

It seems that it's time to admit that dressing actors in LED-studded catsuits, asking them to give performances on sterile white sets and handing the results to a team of computer animators is not a way to make a good movie. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Mar 11, 2011

Aside from a relatively brief appearance by Joan Cusack's avatar as the kidnapped mother, there are no involving characters or situations. Read full review

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madonnarules

Aug 26, 2012

you see now here's the movie we have all been waiting for with beatiful animation and the rest that are eye popping it will go down with classics such as toy story.

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Dec 5, 2016

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A_Star_55

Mar 17, 2011

This was a great family movie. Very entertaining and heart warming for kids and parents alike. My daughter wants to live on the Moon and travel to Mars. So this was great fun. Also the 3D digital art work was fantastic. It seemd as if you were there with Milo. I am going to go see itThis was a great family movie. Very entertaining and heart warming for kids and parents alike. My daughter wants to live on the Moon and travel to Mars. So this was great fun. Also the 3D digital art work was fantastic. It seemd as if you were there with Milo. I am going to go see it again and also buy the new DVD. Thanks Disney and IMD!… Expand

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sebastianali

Jul 21, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Marte Necesita Mamas no es tan mala como muchos dicen, sin embargo tampoco es una película tan buena. No la calificaría como mala, sino mas bien mediocre. Presenta un concepto interesante, tiene partes emotivas y demás, aunque algunos personajes se vuelven irritantes y la historia no es explotada lo suficiente, así como que quedan cosas sueltas sobre por ejemplo el porque la supervisora les mintió a todos. Gráficamente esta bastante bien eso si.
Una película con bastante potencial, pero que le falto mas empeño en el desarrollo de la historia.… Expand

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grandpajoe6191

Oct 17, 2011

Wow Robert Zemeckis, are you serious? The SF king throwing this crap into the theaters? "Mars Needs Mom" is terrible. The story pace is inconsistent as well as its huge cliched ending. Don't watch it.

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heyitsmegrif4

Jan 6, 2012

Mars Needs Moms has a great premise and has great animation along with great motion capture performers, but it isn't creative or heartfelt or funny for that matter. Mars Needs Moms ends up being weird and bland. I give this movie 33%.

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Sonic931

Mar 26, 2016

oh god, what is disney thinking?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? this cgi pile of vomit reminds me of real life! why did the aliens steal the f cking mum/mom? Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric is better than this

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